Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Nothing with God can be accidental.

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Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

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How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance, but the soul, the soul reveals itself in the voice only.

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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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Torrent of light and river of air, Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen, Like gold and silver sands in some ravine Where mountain streams have left their channels bare!

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My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

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Does not all the blood within me Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee, As the springs to meet the sunshine.

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An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

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See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!

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Defeat may be victory in disguise.

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Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

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Silence is a great peacemaker.

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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

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How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending,--the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.

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.... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head. And shouts ascend on high .....'' Long live Scanderbeg.

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No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

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I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.

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There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in the words of Faust; "O gentle moon, that lookest for the last time upon my agonies!" --or something to that effect.

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